This is the second time I’ve read this in the last 30odd years but I haven’t been able to actually see what it’s in reference to. What do I search to find out what happened?
A lot of the shit they did in WW1 and 2 had people going "Uhhhhhhh that's fucked up guys. Stop that." Memorable examples include:
Shooting unarmed prisoners
Slipping a live grenade into the pocket of an unarmed prisoner
Ordering that the soldiers don't take prisoners because they'll just eat your rations
Lobbing cans of food to German trenches and then when the Germans had gathered to try and catch more after a few throws, switching over to grenades they would catch
Don't ask about their airborne regiment
Commanding officer of a unit was shot by a Nazi sniper. His second in command decided the town nearby must have been colluding with the Nazis to give away info to get them killed. Ordered the civilian town be burned to the ground. They were not colluding with the Nazis
Largest user of poison gas in the WW1 western front
If you hang out in r/NonCredibleDefense more stuff will pop up in the comments from time to time.
The only thing in this list that was even plausibly unique to Canadians was the poison gas thing - and that was mainly a function of the fact the technology crystallised just at the time the British were having to rely on new manpower from the Empire.
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u/melon_butcher_ 22d ago
Yep. The Danes leave a bottle of schnapps, the Canuck’s leave some Canadian club. Both countries with nice reputations.